Johannes Kepler Quotes
If the attractive virtue of the moon extends as far as the earth, it follows with greater reason that the attractive virtue of the earth extends as far as the moon and much farther; and, in short, nothing which consists of earthly substance anyhow constituted although thrown up to any height, can ever escape the powerful operation of this attractive virtue.
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I always drive like a madman.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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When I want to relax, I plop down on my couch and watch some great movie, usually a British drama - anything with Colin Firth.
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Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.
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I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.
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I believe that the mayor of the most diverse city anywhere in the world has to be a uniter, has to be someone that's comfortable in every community, has to be someone that represents all of us.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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If the attractive virtue of the moon extends as far as the earth, it follows with greater reason that the attractive virtue of the earth extends as far as the moon and much farther; and, in short, nothing which consists of earthly substance anyhow constituted although thrown up to any height, can ever escape the powerful operation of this attractive virtue.
